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Tips, Tales & Testimonies to Save Outdoor Sculpture! Price: $10
This compendium addresses topics from collection care to public awareness and brings together basic information gleaned from others' experiences—anecdotes, documents, references, and other resources—tested by people who have worked to save their local sculpture. Tips suggests you consider your community's collection of monuments and public sculpture as an outdoor museum, in need of care, display, research, and education programs. (2002)
Tips, Tales & Testimonies to Save Outdoor Sculpture! PLUS videos (while supplies last). Price: $12
"Legacy at Risk: Strategies to Save Outdoor Sculpture": A presentation of successful private-public partnerships in Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Upland, CA. (29:40) (1994)
"Adopt-a-Sculpture Video Sampler": An anthology of seven existing video segments reporting on adopt-a-sculpture efforts. (57:50) (1996)
"Business & Community Partnerships to Save Outdoor Sculpture": Four business leaders discuss why well-preserved sculpture is good for business. (10:28) (1994)
Preservation of Outdoor Sculpture and Monuments DVD. Price: $15
This DVD contains three segments:
"Adopt-A-Monument: The Dallas Story" (24:30). Richard Kneipper chairman of Dallas Adopt-A-Monument, discusses the program's evolution, fund-raising, and collaboration with conservators. Between 1988 and 1995, the all-volunteer effort raised more than $250,000 to treat and maintain 12 artworks.
"The Preservation of Outdoor Sculpture: Bronze" (19:00). Segments on bronze casting, mechanisms of deterioration, treatment, and maintenance issues, as well as discussions with conservators and administrators, shed light on preserving bronze sculpture.
"The Preservation of Outdoor Sculpture: Stone" (21:00). This primer on stone and its care examines characteristics, deterioration, maintenance, and conservation of types of stone used in outdoor sculpture and monuments.
Produced in partnership with the National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Region.
Today for Tomorrow: Designing Outdoor Sculpture
Not available in print. A PDF file is downloadable here (752 K).